Adolf Schmitz
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Heinrich Gustav Adolf Schmitz , also Schmitz-Crolenburgh (born June 4, 1825 in Cologne or Darmstadt , † March 18, 1894 in Düsseldorf ), was a German history painter and illustrator .
Schmitz studied from 1843 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and from 1846 in Antwerp painting. From 1851 Schmitz worked at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main . In the 1860s he returned to Düsseldorf. There he was a member of the board of directors of the artists' association Malkasten .
Schmitz created the wall paintings in the small Gürzenichsaal in Cologne and the ceiling painting in the Palais Pringsheim in Berlin (torn down in 1950). In 1865 he created the mural Johannisfest for the town hall in Münster .
literature
- Hermann-Alexander Müller: The most famous contemporaries in the entire field of the visual arts of all countries with details of their works . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 472 f. ( online )
- Artist Lexicon Thieme-Becker, Volume 30 (1936), p. 174
Web links
Commons : Adolf Schmitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Adolf Schmitz , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ^ Julia Hümme: Gregor von Bochmann (1850–1930). Life and work of a Baltic German painter in Düsseldorf . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-937719-31-3 , p. 74 ( online )
- ↑ Dominique Heinen: Adolf Schmitz, inventory no. 13 (1901) , website in the portal reiff-museum.rwth-aachen.de (inventory of the Reiff Museum at RWTH Aachen University), accessed on June 4, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmitz, Heinrich Gustav Adolf (full name); Schmitz-Crolenburgh, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne or Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1894 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |